house speaker nancy pelosi.
i sat down with her in her a
ceremonial office as the house
prepared for the summer recess.
thank you so much mofor joining
me.
>> my pleasure.
>> can i ask you about some of
new this is week?
that would be on afghanistan.
last year, 32 democrats society
voted guest the war in
afghanistan.
this year, 102.
that seems to be a dramatic
rejection by the president's own
party of his major strategic
goals.
>> not quite.
our president came in, he was
president maybe two months,
three months by the time we took
the vote last year.
the republicans said they were
not going to vote for the
funding.
and so it took all democratic
votes.
i persuaded my members to give
this president a chance to give
him room in order to have time
to implement his plan.
now the republicans said they
would vote for it.
it gave my members the freedom
to express themselves on the war
in afghanistan.
>> you didn't vote.
the speaker doesn't have to
vote.
how would you have voted?
>> we brought...